Why is “behind the curtain” a key phrase? Within the Jerusalem temple, a heavy curtain separated humans from God, where God dwelt in the “Holy of Holies.” Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the high priest ...

Our Bible gives us many heroes, with ordinary names still in use today. Here is Adam, Aaron, Joshua, David, Benjamin, Micah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. Any of these can be considered nowadays ...

R.R. Reno takes up the thankless task of critiquing Garry Wills' silly dismissal of the priesthood. Wills basically says that the problem is that decades after a priestless Church of liberal ...

Melchizedek appears suddenly in the Bible with no origin, no genealogy, and no explanation. He blesses Abraham, receives a tithe, and then disappears forever. Ancient Jews debated whether he was a ...

Interestingly, Melchizedek suddenly appeared, not prefaced in the preceding verse: “After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet ...